Professor Alena Douhan (Belarus), Dr. Dr. hab., UN Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights (2020-until now, a professor of International Law, the Director of the Peace Research Center at the Belarusian State University (Belarus), and an associated member of the Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict at Ruhr University Bochum. Her teaching and research interests are in the fields of international law, sanctions and human rights law, international security law, law of international organizations, international dispute settlement, and international environmental law. She has authored over 190 publications on various aspects of international law.